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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024an•a•lyt•ic /ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/USA pronunciation or ˌan•aˈlyt•i•cal, adj. - of or relating to analysis:analytic reasoning.
an•a•lyt•i•cal•ly, adv. See -lys-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024an•a•lyt•ic (an′l it′ik),USA pronunciation adj. - pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- skilled in or habitually using analysis.
- Linguistics(of a language) characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words, auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms. Cf. synthetic (def. 3), polysynthetic (def. 1).
- Philosophy[Logic.](of a proposition) necessarily true because its denial involves a contradiction, as "All husbands are married.''
- Mathematics
- Mathematics(of a function of a complex variable) having a first derivative at all points of a given domain;
holomorphic;
regular. - (of a curve) having parametric equations that represent analytic functions.
- Mathematics(of a proof ) using analysis.
Also, an′a•lyt′i•cal. - Greek analȳtikós, equivalent. to analy- (see analysis) + -tikos -tic
- Medieval Latin analȳticus
- 1580–90
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: analytic /ˌænəˈlɪtɪk/, analytical /ˌænəˈlɪtɪkəl/ adj - relating to analysis
- capable of or given to analysing: an analytic mind
Also: isolating denoting languages, such as Chinese, whose morphology is characterized by analysis- (of a proposition) true by virtue of the meanings of the words alone without reference to the facts, as all spinsters are unmarried
Etymology: 16th Century: via Late Latin from Greek analutikos from analuein to dissolve, break down; see analysisˌanaˈlytically adv |